Ten thousand dollars. I just got my first paycheck. It's around twelve thousand dollars, but I've got some taxes and other deductions, leaving me with ten. I stared at it for a few more seconds. How am I supposed to live with this?! "Okay, Eli... Relax," I took a deep breath. I had been living for the past month with only a hundred-dollar allowance every day. Surely, I can live with ten thousand a month? But that one hundred is just for food. I wasn't paying bills, I had a driver who took me and picked me up from work. Now, it's totally different. I need to pay for everything. Around two thousand is already for rent, so I only have eight thousand left for my other expenses. I wanted to slam my head on my desk. It's funny how I could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in a snap be

